Face pain

Face pain may be dull, throbbing or intense, stabbing discomfort in one or both sides of the face or forehead.

Pain that originates in the face may be caused by a nerve disorder, an injury, or an infection in a structure of the face. Face pain may also begin elsewhere in the body.

Sometimes face pain occurs for no known reason.

• Injury to the face
• Abscessed tooth (continuous throbbing pain on one side of the lower face aggravated by eating or touching)
• Sinusitis or sinus infection (dull pain and tenderness around the eyes and cheekbones that worsens when bending forward)
• Tic douloureux (trigeminal neuralgia)
• Herpes zoster (shingles) or herpes simplex (cold sores) infection
• Cluster headache
• Migraine

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